Quotes About Disguise

rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.

Goodness, in their opinion, was not a virtue but merely spinelessness and fear disguised as humility.

But Sally didn't have the heart to fight back. She wore dark clothes and tried not to be noticed. She pretended she wasn't smart and never raised her hand in class. She disguised her own nature so well that after a while she grew uncertain of her own abilities.

Once upon a time, before the whole world changed, it was possible to run away from home, disguise who you were, and fit into polite society

Half my concern in love became how to disguise love, to make it harmless and merry.

Musgrave and Lawley were alone with the dead body of their friend, whose masquerading dress had become his shroud.

You would have had to look far and wide to find anyone less beautiful than the big nine-fingered bastard. He sat in his saddle slumped over like some great sack of rice. Slow-moving, scratching, sniffing, chewing like a big cow. Trying to look like he had no killing in him, no mad fury, no devil. She knew better. He nodded to her and she scowled back. He was a devil wearing a cow's skin, and she was not fooled.

You put a mask on a person, something weird happens. Changes the way they act along with the way they look. Sometimes they don't seem like people at all no more, but something else.

Repulsion masks attraction

Convention (is) so often a mask for injustice.

I soon discovered that all civility is but the mask of design.

Who's that behind those Foster Grants?

The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

With drums and guns, and guns and drumsThe enemy nearly slew ye.My darling dear, you look so queer,Oh, Johnny, I hardly knew ye.

Under all those smiles, jokes and laughs is a whole different person...

The things we see are only masks for the things we can't see.

Everyone is asleep or pretending to be.

Alan Blunt got in touch with me and asked me to put you up here for the rest of the week, to pretend that you're my son. I have to say, you don't look anything like me." "I don't look anything like myself either," Alex said.

He used language as a place for us to hide.

It was true that she looked too ordinary, too vulnerable to be a psychopathic killer, but then, from what I'd read, most psychopathic killers are just like that. It's why they're so hard to catch.

I'm sure it was real but it resembled one of those cheap wigs worn by department-store mannequins, jet black and as glossy as nylon. It didn't seem to belong to her head.

I've been faking it all my life. I'm good at it.

Your name?"The movements of the man's mouth didn't quite match what he was saying, so seeing him speak was a bit like watching a badly dubbed film. "Alex Gardiner," Alex said. "Your real name?" "I just told you." "You lied. Your real name is Alex Rider." "Why ask if you think you know?

What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person.